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TODAY
is a day of shame for the British military as it declares the Iraqi
city of Basra, with a stricken population of 600,000, a "military
target".

26 March 2003

You will not read or hear those words in the establishment media that
claims to speak for Britain.

But they are true. With
Basra, shame is now our signature, forged by Blair and Bush.

Having destroyed its
water and power supplies, cut off food supply routes and having failed
to crack its human defences, they are now preparing to lay siege to
Iraq's second city which is more than 40 per cent
children.

What an ignominious moment
in British history. Here is an impoverished country
under attack by a superpower, the United States, which has unimaginable
wealth and the world's most destructive weapons, and its "coalition"
accomplice, Britain, which boasts one of the world's best "professional"
armies.

Believing their own propaganda,
the military brass has been stunned by the Iraqi resistance.

They have tried to belittle
the militia defending Basra with lurid stories that its fighters are
killing each other.

The truth is that the
Iraqis are fighting like lionsto defend not a tyrant but their
homeland. It is a truth the overwhelming majority of decent Britons
will admire.

The historical comparison
Tony Blair and his propagandists fear is that of the British defending
themselves against invasion. That happened 60 years ago and now "we"
are the rapacious invaders.

Yesterday, Blair said
that 400,000 Iraqi children had died in the past five years from malnutrition
and related causes. He said "huge stockpiles of humanitarian aid"
and clean water awaited them in Kuwait, if only
the Iraqi regime would allow safe passage.

In fact, voluminous evidence,
including that published by the United Nations Children's Fund, makes
clear that the main reason these children have
died is an enduring siege, a 12-year embargo driven by America and Britain.

As of last July, $5.4billion
worth of humanitarian supplies,
approved by the UN and paid for by the Iraqi government, were
blocked by Washington, with the Blair government's approval.
The former assistant secretary general of the UN, Denis Halliday, who
was sent to Iraq to set up the "oil for food programme", described
the effects of the embargo as "nothing
less than genocide". Similar words have been used by
his successor, Hans Von Sponeck.

Both men resigned
in protest,
saying the embargo merely reinforced the power of Saddam.

Both called Blair
a liar.

And now Blair's troops
are firing their wire-guided missiles to "soften up" Basra.

I have walked the city's
streets, along a road blown to pieces by a US missile. The casualties
were children, of course, because children are everywhere. I held a
handkerchief over my face as I stood in a school playground with a teacher
and several hundred malnourished youngsters.

The dust blew in from
the southern battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War, which have never been
cleaned up because the US and British governments have denied Iraq the
specialist equipment.

The dust, Dr Jawad Al-Ali
told me, carries "the seeds of our death".
In the children's wards of Basra's main hospital, deaths from a range
of hitherto unseen cancers are common and specialists have little doubt
that up to half the population of southern Iraq will die from cancers
linked to the use of a weapon of mass destruction used by the Americans
and British - uranium tipped shells and missiles.

ONCE again, the Americans
are deploying what Professor Doug Rokke, a former US Army physicist,
calls "a form of nuclear weapon that contaminates
everything and everyone".

This, and the use by
both the Allies of new kinds of cluster bombs, is
being covered up.

Once again, the
British public is being denied the reality of war.

Images of bandaged children
in hospital wards are appearing on TV but you
do not see the result of a Tornado's cluster bombing.

You
are not being shown children scalped by shrapnel, with legs reduced
to bloody pieces of string.

Such images are "not
acceptable", because they will disturb
viewers - and the authorities do not want that. These
"unseen" images are the truth. Iraqi parents have
to look at their mutilated children, so
why shouldn't those of us, in whose name they were slaughtered, see
what they see?

Why shouldn't we share
their pain? Why shouldn't we see the true nature of this
criminal invasion?

Other wars were sanitised,
allowing them to be repeated.

If you have satellite
TV, try to find the Al Jazeera channel, which has distinguished itself
with its coverage. When the Americans bombed Afghanistan, one
of their "smart" bombs destroyed the Al Jazeera office
in Kabul. Few believe it was an accident. Rather, it was a testimony
to the channel's independent journalism.

Remember, it is not those
who oppose this war who need to justify themselves, regardless of Blair's
calls to "support our troops". There is only one way to support
them - bring them home without delay.

In 1932, Iraqis threw
out their British colonial rulers. In 1958, they got rid of the Hashemite
monarchy.

Iraqis have shown they
can overthrow dictators against the odds. So why have they not been
able to throw out Saddam?

Because the US and Britain
armed him and propped him up while it suited them, making sure that
when they tired of him, they would be the only alternative to his rule
and the profiteers of his nation's resources. Imperialism has always
functioned like that.

The "new Iraq",
as Blair calls it, will have many models, such as Haiti, the Dominican
Republic and Nicaragua, all of them American conquests and American
ruled until Washington allowed a vicious dictatorship to take over.

Saddam only came to power
after the Americans helped install his Ba'ath Party in 1979. "That
was my favourite coup," said the CIA officer in charge.

Keep in mind the cynicism
behind these truths when you next hear Blair's impassioned insincerity
- and when you glimpse, if you can, the "unacceptable" images
of children killed and mangled in your name, and in the cause of what
the Prime Minister calls "our simple patriotism".

It's the kind of patriotism,
wrote Tolstoy, "that is nothing else but a means of obtaining for
the rulers their ambitions and covetous
desires, and for the ruled the
abdication of human dignity, reason and conscience."

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